Drew University Athletics

Cara Gizzi values the varied experiences—academic, cultural, and athletic—that she gained at Drew. In return, she contributed her talents to campus life, and continues to do so in the wider world.

A three-sport athlete, Cara not only excelled in field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse, but was captain or co-captain of all three teams. She set a single-game record in field hockey in 1993, with four goals and one assist in the Drew Fall Festival. A three-time Mid-Atlantic Conference All-Academic Team member who was selected to play in the Division III North-South All-Star game, she was named to the All-MAC second team in 1993 and first team in 1994, when she was also a Regional All-American and the NJAIAW Woman Athlete of the Year. She led the team in goals (11) in her junior year, and in goals (16) and assists (10) as a senior. Upon graduation, she ranked second in career points and third in career goals and career assists.

Cara was the 1991-92 MAC Rookie of the Year in basketball, which she captained her senior year, graduating fifth in career rebounds and sixth in career points after sitting out her junior year with stress fractures. A newcomer to lacrosse in her first year at Drew, she led the term in interceptions and ground balls in her senior year and was a 1995 MAC All-Star and Regional All-American. Drew recognized her many talents by naming her the 1994-95 Sherman Plato Young Scholar and the 1995 Female Athlete of the Year, and the NCAA awarded her a postgraduate scholarship.